{"id":62145,"date":"2022-07-05T13:06:01","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T11:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/miles-tendis-scathing-review-of-mugabes-legacy-coups-conspiracies-and-the-conceits-of-power-in-zimbabwe"},"modified":"2022-07-05T15:30:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T13:30:13","slug":"miles-tendis-scathing-review-of-mugabes-legacy-coups-conspiracies-and-the-conceits-of-power-in-zimbabwe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/miles-tendis-scathing-review-of-mugabes-legacy-coups-conspiracies-and-the-conceits-of-power-in-zimbabwe","title":{"rendered":"Miles Tendi\u2019s Scathing Review Of Mugabe\u2019s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies And The Conceits Of Power In Zimbabwe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Development studies professor David B. Moore\u2019s new book, Mugabe\u2019s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe, has attracted a scathing review from a fellow author, Blessing-Miles Tendi.<\/p>\n<p>The book attempts to understand the legacy of Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Moore maintains that Mugabe\u2019s legacy revolves around \u201cthe three Cs\u201d: coups, conspiracies and conceits of political power. He shows that \u201cthe three Cs\u201d have their origins in the perilous politics of the independence struggle, in which Mugabe was a key participant.<\/p>\n<p>The book has failed to meet expected standards according to Zimbabwe\u2019s University of Oxford-based Associate Professor Blessing-Miles Tendi.<\/p>\n<p>He says the latest book by Professor David B. Moore of the University of Johannesburg has many flaws as it ignored works by key academics and didn\u2019t interview those who knew Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>Miles Tendi\u2019s recent attack on Moore followed the South African-based academic\u2019s ruthless dismissal of his book, The Army and Politics in Zimbabwe: Mujuru, the Liberation Fighter and Kingmaker, which he said bordered on hagiography, and ideological and strategy misunderstandings.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent review of Moore\u2019s book on Mugabe\u2019s legacy, Miles Tendi says:<\/p>\n<p>Moore largely ignores the contributions of these important contending studies about Mugabe\u2019s legacies. This is subnormal academic practice.<\/p>\n<p>Consequently, the precise ways in which his book surpasses or buttresses competing works about Mugabe\u2019s legacy are indistinct.<\/p>\n<p>Bar an interview with the veteran nationalist politician Edgar Tekere (who had a mammoth lifelong axe to grind with Mugabe) in 2004, Moore did not interview anybody else in Zanu-PF who knew Mugabe well, or worked closely with him for an extended period.<\/p>\n<p>For that reason, the book is bereft of exceptionally revealing findings about Mugabe\u2019s leadership, legacy and the politics of Zanu-PF.<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s main sources are unremarkable diplomatic cables in Western archives and material already in the public domain such as newspaper articles, NGO reports and published books. They do not make for a groundbreaking book.<\/p>\n<p>He added on Twitter:<\/p>\n<p>David Moore\u2019s new book does precisely what feminist scholars have critiqued for decades now. It is laden with unquestioned patriarchal notions and gendered trivialisations that impoverish the study of politics.<\/p>\n<p>Tendi and Moore\u2019s confrontation has some background to it. Moore dismissed Miles Tendi\u2019s book on Mujuru as a hagiography. Moore said:<\/p>\n<p>What does Miles Tendi\u2019s book offer beyond a somewhat hagiographical appreciation of a liberation war \u2018hero\u2019 Why would anyone other than a Zimbabwephile (there are a good number) want to read it?<\/p>\n<p>Does it help explain \u2013 theoretically and\/or empirically \u2013 why a man who was key in a president\u2019s \u2018making\u2019 died in flames while trying to make this same \u2018king\u2019 35 years later? \u2026 Are Tendi\u2019s sources unimpeachable? Indeed, how can readers know?<\/p>\n<p>However, many readers found both books informative and useful beyond their flaws.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\">Zimbabwe<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Zimbabwe. Development studies professor David B. Moore\u2019s new book, Mugabe\u2019s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe, has attracted a scathing review from a fellow author, Blessing-Miles Tendi. The book attempts to understand the legacy of Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017. 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